New Books and Author Entries
Wyatt
Submitted by Karen on Tue, 23/02/2010 - 1:21pm.
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ISBN 978-1-921656-02-6
Blurb from the Book
Wyatt's been away; now he's back.
The job's a jewel heist, quick and simple. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page. Hold up the goods in transit. Get away clean.
Wyatt prefers to work alone but this one belongs to Eddie Oberin - his very smart ex-wife Lydia has inside information. Wyatt has the planning genius and attention to detail. So what could possibly go wrong?
Plenty, if Le Page has anything to do with it. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't walk away.
Technorati Tags: New Authors or Books Wyatt Australia Garry Disher Crime Fiction 2010 Text Publishing Wyatt series Avalanche Pass
Submitted by Karen on Tue, 23/02/2010 - 1:07pm.
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ISBN 978-1-86325-637-7
Blurb from the Book
When guests at a ski lodge in Utah are taken hostage by a group of mercenaries, Jesse Parker, who has left Steamboat Springs to try to salvage his career after a horrific skiing accident, discovers he's in the wrong place at the right time.
One of the hostages is a high-profile senator, so the White House and FBI are notified and Special Agent Denton Colby is sent to Utah to negotiate the ransom with the assassins. But the head of the hostage-takers is playing a dangerous game. As his demands become more erratic, and half the hostages are killed, Colby suspects that money may not be the only thing they're after.
Technorati Tags: Avalanche Pass New Authors or Books Australia John A Flanagan Thriller USA 2010 Bantam Jesse Parker Cold Justice
Submitted by Karen on Mon, 18/01/2010 - 10:49am.
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ISBN 978-1-4050-3927-7
Blurb from the Book
A teenage girl stumbles across the body of her classmate, Tim Pieters, hidden amongst the bushes. His family is devastated, the killer is never found.
Eighteen years later, political pressure sees the murder investigation reopened. Detective Ella Marconi tracks down Georgie Riley, the student who found the body, and who is now a paramedic. Georgie seems to be telling the truth, so then why does Ella receive an anonymous phone call insisting that Georgie knows more? And is it mere coincidence that her ambulance partner, Freya, also went to the same high school?
Ella's confusion increases when Tim's mother, once so willing to get the police involved, suddenly turns her back on the investigation. Meanwhile, Tim's cousin, the MP whose influence reopened the case, can't seem to do enough to help.
The more Ella digs into the past, the more the buried secrets and lies are brought to light. Can she track down the killer before more people are hurt?
Devil's Tears, The
Submitted by Karen on Mon, 18/01/2010 - 10:28am.
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ISBN 978-1-4060-4006-8
Blurb from the Book
1975: When bloody war ravages his beloved Portuguese Timor, Cesar da Silva flees with his wife and children from a country in flames. But in their desperate bid for freedom, amidst the chaos and devastation, Cesar's young family becomes separated. Believing his wife and two daughters dead, Cesar finds passage to the Portugal of his heritage and later to Australia.
In occupied Timor, Cesar's wife is alive, but her troubles are far from over. Hunted by a sadistic warlord and with no way to get a message to the outside world, she despairs she will never see her husband again...
1997: More than twenty years later, a young Australian journalist and her photographer are drawn to the killing fields of Timor and discover the terrible suffering of the Timorese people at the hands of a brutal foreign invader. They are compelled to expose the truth to the world, but in their quest for justice, they become entangled in the da Silva family tragedy, placing them all in the gravest of danger...
Horne, Steven
Submitted by Karen on Mon, 18/01/2010 - 10:24am.
About the Author
Steven Horne was born in Queensland, Australia. He attended the Royal Military College and after graduation served as an officer in the regular army. His military service culminated in operational deployments to East Timor in 2000 with the UN peacekeeping force and to Bougainville in 2001 as a patrol commander with the multi-national force. He has since worked as a contractor in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is currently based in Dubai.
Website & Links
Bibliography
- The Devil's Tears
WANTED: John & Lucy
Submitted by Karen on Tue, 12/01/2010 - 2:54pm.
ISBN 0-9581283-0-8
Blurb from the Book
On a sunny Thursday morning, in a helicopter near Silverwater Prison Complex, a woman pulled a gun from a shopping bag and said 'This is a hijack'.
The pilot, options running out dropped into the prison and lifted John Reginald Killick, armed robber and escapee, to freedom.
This book charts the pathway to that extraordinary act, and its devastating consequences for those charged.
Bloody Relations
Submitted by Karen on Sat, 09/01/2010 - 3:31pm.
ISBN 0143005499
Blurb from the Book
It can take years for love to turn to murderous hate - or it can happen overnight.
What drives a man or a woman to commit the ultimate betrayal - to take the life of a parent, a child, a sibling, a lover?
BLOODY RELATIONS is an unflinching exploration of fourteen well known and not so well known murder-in-the-family cases. Taking readers inside the life and mind of both killer and victim, John Kerr unfolds the gripping stories behind some of Australia's most sensational and shocking crimes.
Question of Power, A
Submitted by Karen on Tue, 05/01/2010 - 3:38pm.
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ISBN 9781863952477
Blurb from the Book
A gripping courtroom drama and a fearless work of investigative journalism, A Question of Power is the story of a man who spent his life gaining power only to be accused of its ultimate abuse.
Geoff Clark was once the most powerful Aboriginal man in Australia. As chairman of ATSIC he was at the pinnacle of his career when, in 2001, newspaper reports revealed that four women accused him of rape. The crimes they described were brutal - but the claims, dating back to the 1970s, were difficult to test.
In A Question of Power, Michelle Schwarz interviews the key players in the case: Clark, the women who accused him, their respective supporters and lawyers. She digs deep to show the story behind the case and explores the hard questions it raises. Was this a case of trial by media? Was there more to the story than the first reports suggested? What do we really know about Geoff Clark?
Schwarz, Michelle
Submitted by Karen on Tue, 05/01/2010 - 3:33pm.
About the Author
Michelle Schwarz is a former lawyer and the author of One Split Second: The Death of David Hookes and the Trial of Zdravko Micevic (2006).
Website & Links
Bibliography
- One Split Second
- A Question of Power
Torn Apart
Submitted by Karen on Fri, 18/12/2009 - 2:07pm.
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ISBN 978 1 74237 139 9
Blurb from the Book
Semi-retired. De-licensed. But Cliff Hardy is once again fighting for justice and tracking down evil when his cousin is brutally murdered - did the shotgun blast find its target, or was it meant for Hardy?
Hardy has never been much of a family man, so when he meets his second cousin Patrick Malloy it's like being hit with a left hook to the solar plexus - Malloy is his double. Cliff and his cousin become friends and travel to attend a gathering of the Irish Travell - the gypsy-like folk from whom they are descended. On their return, Malloy is brutally murdered - but was the shotgun blast intended for him or for Hardy? Hardy is de-licensed, semi-retired ... but this investigation is personal.
The plot becomes still more personal when Malloy's ex-wife, Sheila, comes onto the scene. Hardy has his own enemies and Malloy's to consider as he searches for the killer. Clues point in many directions - to Sheila's motives, to Malloy's suspect business dealings, to his time as a mercenary in Angola.
The search takes Hardy north to a para-military training camp and south to a meeting of Traveller descendants in Kangaroo Valley. Other players have other interests and their playing style is ruthless.
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